Man Booker Prize 2016 longlist revealedEDWINA PICKLESCelebrated South African novelist JM Coetzee and US Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout are among the contenders announced Wednesday for Britain's prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction. READ MORE* Marlon James win 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings* Kiwi author Anna Smail on long list for Man Booker Prize* Book review: The ChimesThere's also a rare nomination for a crime thriller, Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project. Coetzee, who lives in Australia, is the early bookies' favourite and will become the first triple Booker winner if he takes the prize. Previously open to writers from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, the Booker expanded in 2014 to include all English-language authors. Six finalists will be announced September 13 and the winner of the £50,000 pound (NZ$94,000) prize will be named on October 25.

Source: Stuff July 28, 2016 01:41 UTC